The more I use it, the more I am convinced that Linux rocks and Windows sucks.

I currently use a PC with a dual OS - XP Pro and Ubuntu 10.04, and a netbook with Eeebuntu 2.0 NBR on it.

I love the clean interface of Ubuntu 10.04. I've tried using Windows 7 and I hate it. The only thing is that I cannot get my onboard webcam to work on my netbook - though it's no big whup.

I reccomend anyone who has a netbook to ditch Windows in favour of Linux any day of the week.

Netbook or any other desktop or laptop for that matter.

Well my Asus Eee PC came with Xandros on it. Which was okay, but when I found out about Eeebuntu, I soon pissed it off.

I'm actually quite happy with Windows 7. I've been using it almost exclusively for over 2 years now. I got a batch of lockups and BSODs at one point, but that was the memory in my desktop failing. I don't really bother with Linux in my own time all that much anymore, don't really have much use for it. All the applications I use such as Games or Music Production software are on Windows, so there's little enough reason for me to boot into the Linux install I have any more.

That being said though, tinkering and scripting in Linux never gets old. When I was in college I use to have a script that I used to use to download stuff overnight, extract and sort the files, and have the laptop shut itself down after its done. The shell is extremely powerful once you get into it.

Debian Stable/Testing is the only distro I keep coming back to. The minimalist approach is quite fun, with no desktop manager (no gnome/kde etc.) and just the Window manager (openbox being my choice). Even though it's rather silly, it's fun to have the thing idle on less than 100MB of RAM, even if I have 16GB.

the only OS I really miss and WISH I could have NOW was our internal operating system at IBM. It was called VM (virtual machine) and it was setup in 1970. All command line interface, no mouse and with only the cursor prompt.

It never froze. Never went down, never had a virus or was sick. It was fast. When I got hired there, you had a six week class on "how" to use it. If you did not pass the class, you could not work there.

I love love love Linux. I was introduced to it back in 2009 when I woke up to my windows pc informing me that it was "missing hal .dll" and I thought 'what the hell is a hall dill. Up to that point, I was just your normal windows user who thought that knowing how to email, surf the web and do a system restore was a tech pro. Ha.

I didn't have a restore disc and was freshly divorced and starting life over broke after being house slave for years so didn't know what to do. Thanks to google, I found linux. I tried Ubuntu first, but it didn't go well but found Puppy and whammo, I was hooked. Within weeks, I was downloading new distros every day, so excited to see what the next one was. I seriously was installing new operating systems on that poor dell sometimes twice a day. Like an addiction. I remember my sweetie coming home and I would put my hand over the phone to hide the sound of my cd drive opening because I was embarrassed to tell him I was installing ANOTHER one. I have enough live cds to run every goodwill computer in the state of texas:D When I installed that E17 by command line(with instruction of course, didn't really know what I was doing) and it WORKED I felt like I was God.

Still have way too much too learn but I'm still plugging away learning. Loving it. My fave at the moment is Linux Mint.

Well I'm not really a software bod. I am a nuts and bolts man. I understand how to install system software and stuff like that, but when it comes to tinkering around with coding I am fucked. Which is why Mr Gates and Microbollox drives me fucking NUTS.

I mean EVERY TIME this shower of shite releases the latest versiion of Windows, they claim it can do this better, or that better and is more stable than anything else on the market.

Then the problems start. It won't recognise this gizmo. Or that gizmo. It loses drivers. It gets bugs.

THEN you have to have the 'Service packs' or 'Patches'..... YO!!!BILLY BOY!!!!!!EVER TRIED COMING UP WITH SOMETHING THAT ACTUALLY FUCKING WORKS DUDE?

Guys like me DO NOT want to have to sort your fucking crappy software out for you. Pay me some money and then we might be talking business.

Shit's gotta work. Simple as.

I mean ask yourself. DO YOU REALLY NEED a 1TB Drive? DO YOU REALLY NEED A BLU RAY BURNER?....If the answer is no, then get your hands on an Eee PC and load the fucker with Eeebuntu.

I thought Jolicloud was interesting too. You can use it as a web app but its also an install and Im gonna try that next when I have some time. Like you said, who needs a TB storage with everything being online these days. Don't even need programs anymore. Between open source, web apps and linux, I haven't bought a program in forever. I do donate though. How can I not? Amazing stuff.

http://www.jolicloud.com/jolios

See, it's shit like this that has me going gamma. WTF is a 'halll dill'? Some kind of fucked up accompanyment to a burger or what?

I will repeat, I am a a PC mechanic. I fix 'em when they break. I do NOT have the luxury of being able to embark upon a journey of quasi mystiscism, in order to understand just WTF all these error messages mean.

And I just LUUURRRRRRVVVEEE how Windows just spontaneously fucks up. For no other reason than 'Oh. It's Windows HAHAHAHAHAH'.

Bill Gates should be ass-raped by a nigga with a ten inch schlong called Bubba. Then he might know how the average Windows user feels

And to think there are still web servers with 128MB of RAM out there. Nginx and the like. It's insane what you can do with a barebones OS.

Another Openbox lover here (though I'm using XFCE right now). I remember being so hooked on Fluxbox (an Openbox/Blackbox cousin) a few years back, and the only way I managed to drag myself back to Windows (because I needed to use Flash) was by installing bbLean. I was so relieved to find that something like that existed for Windows.


I can relate so much to that. I even made a customized Puppy and always carried it around in a CD. My HDD ended up with three or four tiny 4GB partitions because I couldn't bear myself to delete some of my distros.

I still use Windows. In the past, I considered switching to Linux, but I'm either too lazy or just snowed under (or both). I think I'll have to do it sooner or later, because knowledge of another OS could be my asset when I write it down on my CV.

Well, I can surf the net, do office tasks, load MP3 players, send and recieve emails, view my photographs, all on a machine that cost me £100, and I can carry the thing anywhere. No crappy error messages or sytem fuck ups to contend with. Oh and HOW much did I pay for my O/S?......Nada. Zero. Nothing.

Beat that Microbollox!!!!!!

Well strip out X entirely and you'll get it down even lower.

Kind of strange to have your Web Browser using about 2-3 times what the whole OS is using.


I've never actually tried Fluxbox, other than the version that loads on the gParted live CDs. My setup is actually Openbox with the XFCE panel.

Here's a rather old screenshot of the Laptop's Debian desktop. It's still pretty much the same.



EDIT: HERE's my desktops install.

linux is superior to windows in every way.

It is more resource efficient
It is more stable
It is more secure
It is more custamizable (good if you like to pimp out your os)
It is capable of being more user friendly, and configured out of the box (im on a fresh sabayon install as i type)

also unlike Microsoft witch creates an experience and sells there products as "how many features you get", linux can actully be for anybody and everybody. there are so many distributions to choose from that would cover what the user wants to do out of box with less configuration. there are distributions for all level of users. in linux you create your own experience or choose from hundreds of preconfigured experiences. you will never be locked down to what your OS can do based on your version, its simply the one of the best.